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Re: [PATCH] MyFirstContribution: Document --range-diff option when writing v2

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Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 14, 2021, 03:55 UTC
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On 14/09/21 10.46, Eric Sunshine wrote:
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> Not so. Anyone who does any serious amount of review on this project
> finds it tremendously helpful to have both a prose description of the
> changes ("Changes since v1..." plus a link to the previous submission)
> and a mechanical range-diff or interdiff. A range-diff (or interdiff)
> is especially important to provide reviewers with context which they
> might have forgotten since the previous version of a patch series was
> posted, which can matter since it's so easy to forget specifics even
> about one's own review if enough time has passed or if reviewing a
> large number of unrelated submissions. A range-diff or interdiff also
> helps a reviewer determine at-a-glance whether or not earlier review
> comments have been addressed without having to laboriously re-read
> each and every patch.
> 
So will range-diff be mandatory or optional?
-- 
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  1. MyFirstContribution: Document --range-diff option when writing v2Glen Choo, Sep 13, 2021
  2. Eric SunshineSep 13, 2021
  3. Eric SunshineSep 13, 2021
  4. Junio C HamanoSep 13, 2021
  5. Glen ChooSep 14, 2021
  6. Junio C HamanoSep 14, 2021
  7. Bagas SanjayaSep 14, 2021
  8. Eric SunshineSep 14, 2021
  9. Bagas SanjayaSep 14, 2021
  10. MyFirstContribution: Document --range-diff option when writing v2Glen Choo, Sep 20, 2021
  11. Eric SunshineSep 21, 2021
  12. Glen ChooSep 21, 2021
  13. Glen ChooSep 21, 2021
  14. Glen ChooSep 21, 2021
  15. Bagas SanjayaSep 21, 2021
  16. Glen ChooSep 21, 2021
  17. Junio C HamanoSep 22, 2021
  18. Philip OakleySep 22, 2021
  19. Glen ChooSep 22, 2021
  20. Philip OakleySep 23, 2021
  21. Bagas SanjayaSep 23, 2021
  22. MyFirstContribution: Document --range-diff option when writing v2Glen Choo, Sep 22, 2021

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